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Standup Emmett Montgomery remembers his shitty, angry, muse of a cat. His cat named Walter.

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Infinitesimally small quantum dots can turn a window into a see-through solar panel!

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If you want to learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
Solar window: a window that functions like an ordinary window but also generates power like a solar panel

Nanoparticle (also called nanopowder or nanocluster or nanocrystal): a microscopic particle with at least one dimension less than 100 nm. These tiny objects often have characteristics that differ from larger versions of the same material.

Quantum dots (QD): tiny nanoparticles of some kind of semiconducting material, only several nanometers in size, so small that their optical and electronic properties differ from those of larger particles. The QDs embedded in solar windows can absorb radiation largely in short wavelengths and re-emit in longer wavelengths; useful for capturing solar energy and successfully transferring it to the solar cells on the edges of the pane.

Total internal reflection: a phenomenon in which a wave hits a medium boundary at such an angle that it doesn’t pass through to the other side
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Video Narrator: Kate Yoshida (@KateYoshida)
With Contributions From: Henry Reich, Ever Salazar, Emily Elert, Peter Reich, David Goldenberg
Music by: Nathaniel Schroeder: http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder

Image Credits: Thumbnail: R. Lunt, MSU.
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References:

Bradshaw, L. R., Knowles, K. E., McDowall, S. & Gamelin, D. R. Nanocrystals for luminescent solar concentrators. Nano Lett. 15, 1315–1323 (2015).

Meinardi, F., Ehrenberg, S., Dhamo, L., Carulli, F., Mauri, M., Bruni, F., Simonutti, R., Kortshagen, U. and Brovelli, S., 2017. Highly efficient luminescent solar concentrators based on earth-abundant indirect-bandgap silicon quantum dots. Nature Photonics, 11(3), pp.177-185.

Meinardi, F. et al. Highly efficient large-area colourless luminescent solar concentrators using heavy-metal-free colloidal quantum dots. Nat. Nanotech.10, 878–885 (2015).

Yang, C, R. R. Lunt. Limits of Visibly Transparent Luminescent Solar Concentrators. Adv. Opt. Mat., 5, 8, 1600851, 2017.

Zhao Y., G. Meek, B. Levine, and R. R. Lunt, “Near-Infrared Harvesting Transparent Luminescent Solar Concentrators”. Adv. Opt. Mat., 2, 606, 2014.

Episode 1: Being able to send a robot version of yourself to a party sounds awesome. But what if it runs into your ex-boyfriend? *** Everything is Okay A young woman making it in the big city—only, maybe, as a demon hunter. In this new comedic digital series, actress and writer Cirocco Dunlap takes everyday life to surreal places, where stuff is far, far from okay. *** Topic.com Like us on Facebook: https://goo.gl/TG0ZHs Instagram: https://goo.gl/TbFWEC Twitter: https://goo.gl/F1jie5

“In a Heartbeat” – Animated Short Film by Beth David and Esteban Bravo A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy of his dreams. contact.inaheartbeat@gmail.com Official Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/inaheartbeat2017/ Official Tumblr Page – https://inaheartbeat-film.tumblr.com/ IMDB – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6969946/?ref_=tt_rec_tt Produced at Ringling College of Art and Design by Beth David – Instagram: @bbethdavidd – Twitter: @bbethdavidd – Tumblr: http://bethdavid.tumblr.com/ Esteban Bravo – Instagram: @estebravo – Twitter: @EstebanBravoP – Tumblr: http://estebanbravo.tumblr.com/ – Website: https://www.estebanbravo.com/ Music by Arturo Cardelús https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFaXJffksZY Sound Design by Nick Ainsworth https://www.ainsworthsound.com/ © Beth David and Esteban Bravo 2017

The Doghan Daguis are a trio of comical characters appearing in Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. They were created in CG by Weta Digital. On set, full-sized maquettes were filmed and then scanned to help craft the digital versions. Three performers also acted out the roles in performance capture marker suits.

One of the characters’ interesting traits is the ability to finish each other’s sentences, but it was a challenge for Weta Digital to differentiate between each speaker and make sure the audience knew who was talking. Weta Digital’s visual effects supervisor Martin Hill discusses how they pulled that aspect of the character off.

Martin Hill: To really read the vocals rolling across from one character to another, we generally, rather than amping up the character who was actually talking, we commuted the characters who weren’t talking. We generally closed their mouths down a little bit more and would not move their head around so much. It made it very much more clear who was performing at any one time.

Quite often, to make the characters more fun, to make them within the comic book world, we would alter their jaw during a shot so we could get the dental fricatives sounds, the ’th’ sounds so we can actually see their teeth.

Now, obviously, they’ve got these really long snouts. When they are facing one way or another to camera, they would generally talk on the side of their mouth that was facing camera, which is kind of an unphysical contrivance, but the trick there is always making it look natural, not making it look cartoony, making it feel like you are not noticing that you’re putting all of these cheeks and they’re not obvious things that they’re just all these nuances build the performance and make it more fun to watch.